The Cloister Walk

Worship is essential for human flourishing. For one thing, we are all worshipping something all the time. The idolatries that fester, even in a well-disciplined Christian heart, when we are confronted with nonstop news of terror and rumors, can only really be put to rest when we gather with others to “set forth God’s praise, hear his Holy Word, and

Radical Hermeneutics was also something of a manifesto for a philosophy that mattered. The introduction was titled “Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty”; the final chapter, “Openness to Mystery.” This was a postmodernism with philosophical chops and a religious heartbeat.

it is important to recognize that there was no place to go where people’s attention and practices were not focused on God. There was no holiday from the grind of prayer, confession, and absolution (except a few church-sanctioned carnivals). And everything was everyone’s business, because everyone was playing the same song. You had no right to priva